St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-29
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Special to the Globe.
BISMARCK, Jan. 2S.-There was lively fight
in the council over the bill providing for the
printing of joint resolutions, memorials. etc.
Trouble was created by R. NJ. futile, editor
of the Vermifuge Comfit, published ever and
anon in Mandan. The Couft editor wanted
to do the printing at an exceedingly low
price, and he would probably have succeeded
in getting share of it, but it was discovered
that he didn't have the facilities for doing the
work in his Office and was counting on send
it to st. Paul to be done. This settled it, and
the Comfit lost his grip.
The gayeSt, friSkieSt ShrewdeSt member f
the house is Donald Stewart, of Walsh county.
He was reared in the shadow of the Grampian
hills and came over here with q rich Scotch
brogue, so prominent that he is obliged to
pay taxes on it. "Uncle'' Donald was given
his choice of seats early in the session, on
account of deafness, and he located himself
within easy reach of the speakers ear. He
is the only man in the house who can hold q
committee spel-bound as he shoots wads of
musical atmosphere at them. He it is who
introduced the bill to protect hotels and
boarding houses against swindlerS, and the
impression has gone out that at some time
"Uucle'' Donald has been handsomely done
up by the man who is willing to saw wood but
wants his pay first.
Visiting ladies are granted the privilege of
occupying the same floor with the law
makers. and from the peculiar arrangement
of the seats provided for visitors the mem
berS of the house can size them up without
changing position in their seats. Last year it is
said, the ladies were only admitted to the
gallery. and when they stirred their robes
and the cloud of Jockey Club" new mown
hay" and Mary Stuart fioated down into
the house the lawmakers would turn in their
seats and mop the gallery front all over with
their blandest smiles. During the session
several members nearly. twis ted their neckS
out of joint, and to prevent a recurrence of
so serious posS Utility the ladies have been
placed in row where the members can see
them without twisting.
Miss Cora Smith and Miss Sedohr Rhodes
came down from Grand Forks last Tuesday
and did the only thing III ut has been done to
break the monotony since the deadlock.
They gave an Evolutionary and musical en-
tertainment i'll the atheneum for the benefit
of the G. A. r. Both ladies are daughters of
old veterans, who carry scars received in the
midst of the smoke and roar of the late wa T.,
and in their entertainment, which drew a
large audience, they gave evidence of more
than ordinary talent. Both ladies are yet
young and both possess beautiful faces and
graceful figures and if there is man living
within a radius of 10c miles Of Grand Forks
who fishes around in the eHete East for a wife
and is aware that these young ladies reside
| within easy reach of him ought to be run full
of hot lead and anchored in the Red River of
the North.
E. p. Ward, of Parker, is q quiet sort Of an
individual, but when ne gets to talking the
members of the house get the impression thar
demented buzz saw has wandered in among
them, and they give their closest attention to
lodging him. He champloned the cause of
Yankton in the recent court removal fight,
and he did it in q Stentorian sort of q way.
Mr.. Ward looks more like Sol Smith Russell
than he does himself and he is about as hui
morous as that popular deineator of pleasing
comedy is. In a smoking cap, dressing gown
and hand-painted slippers, Mr.. Ward would be
Sol Smiths second self as he appears In the
character of Pa in his new play of the same
title. He is one of the most genial and fun
loving members of the house.
P.J. McCumberof Wahpeton, the young law
yer who came within an ce of being president
OF the council, is the unmarried member OF
that body, and he has the honor thrust upon
him of settling all matrimonial problems that
come up before that dignified body. The
other day, while divorce bill was being dis
cussed, Mr.. McCumber expressed himself as
being opposed to the divorce law.
What would you do, McCumber,'' said
Alex Hughes. IF you found you were mar
ried to Il woman who neglected her home and
paid more attention to other men than sue did
to your
Said McCumber: 81 would provide myself
with large, fesh-colored club, we'll devel-
oped in all its parts, and would poultice her
with it thoroughly until had drawn all the
auti-home sentiment out of her. have a
great deal OF faith in club when used judic-
iously. There is more real deep bay argu-
ment in it than there is in a cord and half of
divorce law, and don't you forget it.
TEE AITCH.